I don’t mind telling you, there is a downside to finally getting your blog a page rank. Trackback Spam. And yes, I have written before about the wonderful way to get inbound links to your blog using Trackback’s, but this isn’t what I meant.
Read The RestAsk yourself this question: Is my comptuer protected against the threats of today?
Most people assume the protection they loaded last year (or last decade), is enough to protect them. They assume wrong.
Hackers, crackers, Trogan writers and Virus makers are constantly evolving their skill, their targets and their ambitions…
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First, you need to know that it isn’t YOUR blog settings that are allowing you to trackback to another blog, but rather THEIR settings. Each blog owner has the choice to allow it or not (including you).
On Wordpress, they can turn this option on or off at Dashboard | Settings | Discussion. It is the “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)” in the Default article settings section.
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I know 22 things sounds like a long list, but trust me, do these things right after installing your new Wordpress blog, and you will start to see immediate traffic, it won’t take as much work to manage your blog, and your visitors will love it!
Little Tweaks With A Big Impact
First and foremost are those little annoying tweaks, that left undone now, can have repercussions later. (These are presented in no particular order since I make sure ALL are done before I install plugins or start posting.)
Read The RestIf you have had a blog up for any length of time, you are starting to get spam. It’s a fact of life. Sadly. However, there are some proactive things you can do to stop the spam madness. By default, WordPress comes with a plugin called Akismet . However, in order to use it, you […]
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